Author: Statistical Society of Australia. Statistical Computing SectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Database management
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Statcomp '83'
Author: Statistical Society of Australia. Statistical Computing SectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Database management
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Statcomp '83' Papers
Author: Smooth Tests of Goodness of Fit
Author: J. C. W. RaynerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195056108
Category : Goodness-of-fit tests
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Goodness of fit describes the validity of models involving statistical distributions of data, and smooth tests are a subset of these tests that can be used in any situation in which there are relatively large sample sizes.
What Works in Foster Care?
Author: Peter J. PecoraPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199721122
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
On any given day, nearly half a million children are served by foster care services in the U.S. at an annual cost of over $25 billion. Growing demand and shrinking funds have so greatly stressed the child welfare system that calls for orphanages have re-entered the public debate for the first time in nearly half a century. New ideas are desperately needed to transform a system in crisis, guarantee better outcomes for children in foster care, and reduce the need for out-of-home care in the first place. Yet little is known about what works in foster care. Very few studies have examined how alumni have fared as adults or tracked long-term health effects, and even fewer have directly compared different foster care services. In one of the most comprehensive studies of adults formerly in foster care ever conducted, the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study found that quality foster care services for children pay big dividends when they grow into adults. Key investments in highly trained staff, low caseloads, and robust supplementary services can dramatically reduce the rates of mental disorders and substance abuse later in life and increase the likelihood of completing education beyond high school and remaining employed. The results of this unparalleled study document not only the more favorable outcomes for youth who receive better services but the overall return when an investment is made in high quality foster care: every dollar invested in a child generates $1.50 in benefits to society. These findings form the core of this book's blueprint for reform. By keeping more children with their families and investing additional funds in enhanced foster care services, child welfare agencies have the opportunity to greatly improve the health, well being, and economic prospects for foster care alumni. What Works in Foster Care? presents a model foster care program that promises to revolutionize the way policymakers, administrators, case workers, and researchers think about protecting our most vulnerable youth.
Statistical Society of Australia Newsletter
Author: Annual Report of the Australian Bureau of Statistics
Author: Australian Bureau of StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Solution of Partial Differential Equations on Vector and Parallel Computers
Author: James M. OrtegaPublisher: SIAM
ISBN: 9781611971774
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
This volume reviews, in the context of partial differential equations, algorithm development that has been specifically aimed at computers that exhibit some form of parallelism. Emphasis is on the solution of PDEs because these are typically the problems that generate high computational demands. The authors discuss architectural features of these computers insomuch as they influence algorithm performance, and provide insight into algorithm characteristics that allow effective use of hardware.
On a Knife Edge
Author: Holger AfflerbachPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108967183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of the war was actually in the balance until relatively late in the war. Using new evidence from diaries, letters and memoirs, he fundamentally revises our understanding of German strategy from the decision to go to war and the failure of the western offensive to the radicalisation of Germany's war effort under Hindenburg and Ludendorff and the ultimate collapse of the Central Powers. He uncovers the struggles in wartime Germany between supporters of peace and hardliners who wanted to fight to the finish. He suggests that Germany was not nearly as committed to all-out conquest as previous accounts argue. Numerous German peace advances could have offered the opportunity to end the war before it dragged Europe into the abyss.
Register of the Rectors and Fellows, Scholars, Exhibitioners and Bible Clerks of Exeter College, Oxford
Author: Charles William BoasePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The Journal of College and University Law
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description